efocus Sept. 2017 faculty September 2017 State-of-the-Art Preakness Hall Opens for Fall 2017 Semester Renovated academic facility on campus houses four top-of-the-line kinesiology laboratories, 14 smart classrooms, a 90-seat auditorium, numerous small and large group study rooms @@@ Read more William Paterson University to Host 2017 New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate on October 18, 2017 William Paterson student will be selected to ask a question to candidates during live broadcast; Faculty and students will participate in post-debate panel discussion @@@ Read more U.S. Department of Education Awards $99,000 Fulbright-Hays Grant to William Paterson Professors Kabba Colley and Darlene Russell for Group Study in Senegal College of Education faculty will accompany group of both aspiring and professional teachers on 12-week trip to conduct research and advance global awareness and interdisciplinary instruction about the region @@@ Read more Retirement Celebration Led to the Launch of the Nan Guptill Crain Scholarship Fund Nan Guptill Crain, professor of music at William Paterson for 48 years, retired in May 2017 and created an endowed scholarship for $25,000 @@@ Read more University Commemorates World War I With University Galleries Exhibition Of World War I Posters Curated by Professor George Robb More than 20 propaganda posters from the Special Collections Division of the Newark Public Library will be on view, many not publicly exhibited since 1919 @@@ Read more Accounting Student Receives $10,000 Merit-Based Scholarship Talia Spille of Mount Tabor, NJ, an accounting major at William Paterson University, is one of 167 students nationwide who were to chosen to receive a $10,000 merit-based scholarship from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) @@@ Read more University Offering an MA in Higher Education Administration Degree at Mercer County Community College Students will soon be able to complete a master of arts degree in higher education administration from William Paterson University at the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) campus, as part of an expanding agreement between the two institutions @@@ Read more One Person, Big Difference: Alumna Leads the Fight Against Hunger Joan McNerney Skudera ’96 launches grassroots effort to enact positive change @@@ Read more efocus archive | campus calendar | news | athletics | wpunj home Editor's Note: Efocus is published monthly by the Office of Marketing and Public Relations from September through May. Contact us with any questions or comments at efocus@wpunj.edu or call 973-720-2971.